Author: Vicky Zeamer
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Digital Library Digest: November 28, 2012
This week’s digest covers efforts to close the digital literacy gap in immigrants, an innovative library remodel in Australia, a multimedia contest where the public has a chance to use their creativity with two digital archive’s collections, an ALA statement about fair ebook pricing and terms, and bookworms in old archives.
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Press: The Minnesota Digital Library receives total $350,000 grant to contribute to DPLA
Funding will help to spotlight Minnesota’s special resources, increase outreach, and develop “Born Digital” immigration oral-histories “MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/26/2012) —The Minnesota Digital Library, a state-wide collaboration consisting of the University of Minnesota, Minitex, the Minnesota Historical Society, and other key institutions, was chosen to be a key early contributor to the Digital Public Library of…
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John Palfrey, President of the DPLA Board of Directors, to pen a periodical column for Library Journal
In Palfrey’s first column of the Library Journal, he provides a background of the project as well as discusses the fundamental questions surrounding the DPLA.
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Press: Appfest Coverage Highlights
Appfest shows off space for collaboration in the Chattanooga Public Library View more from Aaron Schmidt, Views from the DPLA Appfest at Chattanooga Public Library 4th Floor of the Chattanooga Public Library looks blank, but is full of room for community and creativity “I think institutions have layers that move at different speeds. The parts of…
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Press: $247,000 grant from the Knight Foundation helps Middle Georgia Libraries to grow databases
“Over the years, people have called Muriel McDowell-Jackson, devastated after they lost photos or other sentimental objects in a house fire or some other family tragedy. “They often turn to McDowell-Jackson, the head genealogy librarian/archivist for the Middle Georgia Regional Library, hoping that some portion of their history has been previously preserved in the library’s…
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Digital Library Digest: November 20, 2012
This week’s digest features a town’s effort to collect content by hosting a “Digital Donation Day,” a DIY robotic book scanner plan, a JSTOR and Wikipedia open access partnership, a founding partner of the World Digital Library’s own effort to create a digital library at home, and a decision from Louisiana state to cut all…
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Press: Toby Graham interview about the DPLA on WGAU
“Toby Graham, Director of the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG), was interviewed on WGAU’s Newsmakers with Tim Bryant program. The topic of this interview was the DLG’s involvement with the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). It is an excellent introduction to the goals of the DPLA, and to the important role that the DLG…
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Digital Library Digest: November 13, 2012
This week’s digest discusses the issue of time and maintaining of cloud server based archives, a crowdsourced transcription effort by the National Archive of Australia, a Danish effort to offer free on-demand digitizing, the work of the University of Georgia digital hub, and the Author’s Guild’s appeal of the HathiTrust court decision.
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Digital Library Digest: November 6, 2012
Not Just a Matter of Acid-Free Paper Anymore, Long Term Storage Issues for Digital Media “Stanford University‘s (CA) Julie Sweetkind-Singer is a recognized authority on digital preservation, and has been honored by the Library of Congress for her work in the field. She currently serves as both the assistant director of Stanford’s Geospatial, Cartographic and Scientific Data…
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Press: Podcast, Robert Darnton and Susan Flannery: “Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects”
“The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era. How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future? How…